Cinderella Man

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...and his struggle with schizophrenia. The critically acclaimed film earned Howard an Academy Award for best director and was named best picture. Howard’s subsequent films include Cinderella Man (2005), which was based on the Depression-era boxer James Braddock (Russell Crowe), and The Da Vinci Code (2006), a film adaptation of Dan Brown’s...

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Crowe

...as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), a seafaring epic based on the fiction series by Patrick O’Brian. In Cinderella Man (2005) he played real-life boxer James J. Braddock, who staged a timely comeback to help his family out of financial hardship during the Great Depression. After portraying an...

Giamatti

...regions of California for a celebratory trip before the latter’s wedding. In 2006 Giamatti received his first Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor, for his work in Cinderella Man (2005), a biopic about the life of boxer Jim Braddock (played by Russell Crowe). Subsequent film appearances include The Illusionist (2006), a drama...

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